Re: GOAWAY -> GTFO

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:25 AM, CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r)
<pr3d4t0r.w3c@cime.net> wrote:
>
>
>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Adrian Cole <adrian.f.cole@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, when GTFO was suggested last week at the working group, all people
>>>> present had an opportunity to dissent and I heard not a single dissent
>>>> voiced!
>>>>
>>>> That said, I wouldn't conflate above PR/commit as a "popular move" as
>>>> who
>>>> knows.. GOAWAY might actually lose a popular vote vs GTFO!
>>>>
>>>> That said, silencing the argument is likely a popular move, so maybe the
>>>> description still fits.
>
>
> I expressed this in the GitHub comments about the issue, echoing it here as
> well because this mailing list has a wider audience.
>
> Use of GTFO is fine.  Anyone arguing that because foreign speakers may not
> understand potential slang is being naïve or needs to get out more.  I've

I need to get out? Out where? Do I need to get the fuck out?

The phrase "get the fuck out" has multiple meanings, often depending
on the context and the tone of speaking, like all slangs. For a
non-native English speaker to understand the nuance and subtlety,
forget-about-it.

I apologize for joining in this conversation; I will STFU now.

Zhong Yu

> managed development teams in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Kiev, the San Francisco
> Bay Area, London, and Japan.  The use of slang or jargon derived from
> English in technical documentation, implementations, code, or configuration
> has never deterred anybody from applying the appropriate knowledge.  GOAWAY
> vs. GTFO -- if I were to implement a server or a client handler for this,
> I'd go for GTFO as the most meaningful (and perhaps get a secret chuckle,
> sure).
>
> So -- can we keep this instead?  Think of HTTP status code 418 IMATEAPOT
> (which is Russian slang for "I don't know what I'm doing").  Not many web
> servers or app servers implement it, granted, but it's part of the official
> spec.  And I've known teams in the US and Europe who've used 418 as a
> placeholder for an app RESTful handler that is only mocked up/yet to be
> implemented.
>
> Just my $0,02.
>
> Cheers!
>
> E
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Received on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:35:35 UTC